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"We think intelligence is important to win wars," he said. "Wars are not won by intelligence. They're won by the blood, treasure, courage of the young men and women that we put in the field.... What intelligence really does when it is working well is to help avoid wars."

"There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Vice President Dick Cheney said on August 26, 2002. "There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld said the same:
"We know they have weapons of mass destruction," he said. "There isn't any debate about it."

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“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. Garrett Jones, the CIA station chief during the disastrous American expedition in Somalia, put it plainly: "There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps," he said. "One hopes they won't be fatal."